Stuff you made

[deye243]

Well i went back to 2021 and could not find a thread so I figured I would start one about shooting and fishing related stuff we have made as a lot of us fish as well .
Now this was sparked of because of Wapiti's thread on his field rest .

Ok well after not being able to find a pin tumbler that comes in on my standards I thought i would make one so here it is .

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And after paint

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OK all post up your home made stuff .

[wrenchman]

nice it does look like you have more rapped up in material then it would cost to buy one but if the stuff is laying around you are good

[Wapiti]

Maybe not, Wrenchman, if you dabble in making stuff, sometimes you have most of the stuff that can be repurposed and some spare time.
Too many people spend it on the couch bending the elbow that is giving them diabetes and staring at the TV allowing Alzheimer's to develop, I'd rather be exercising the brain and the hands in the shed ...

On most of the big names brass tumblers... quite frankly they work but have a few faults. One being crap.

Mate that's a super professional job, right down to the pillow-block bearings and shafts, pulleys etc.
Working out the speed via the pulley diameter/motor speed, did that work out how you wanted it?
And the drum itself, is the cap a screw-on with seal, I assume it is?
Is it pressure poly, and I'm really interested in where you went to get the plastic-work too.

Unreal thread topic, keen to see what becomes of it because there are some great home ideas and skill out there. Politics and economics threads are a part of life, but it's a real downer after awhile and seems all there is. I bet there are some excellent ideas out there to share.

[mchughcb]

I've made a few stands and blinds over the years.

https://youtu.be/bI3fJx80CsI?list=PLVIn ... Dt5MTsYY5M

[deye243]

nice it does look like you have more rapped up in material then it would cost to buy one but if the stuff is laying around you are good

You must have not read the last paragraph in my post I couldn't get one that came up to my standards I believe things should last a lifetime and I couldn't get one big enough I can put around five or six hundred 7mm Remington Magnum cases in this tumbler God only knows how many nine 9mm ones will fit

[Wapiti]

This morning I had to knock this thing up in a hurry.
It's cut from a length of 5mm 316 SS rod, heated up and flattened then ground and sharpened to what looks like a giant's sewing needle.
Just something else that yesterday, I never knew I'd need today and I'm just glad I had the gear to make, real fast.

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It had to be sharpened really sharp. Think, like a dagger at the tip but definitely not sharp - smooth in fact, from the hole and down towards the handle.

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It takes either nylon tape, or paracord.

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In this case, orange paracord so that, from a distance, we can see that it is still there, working. Think giant stiching thread.

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[Wapiti]

I wouldn't normally ever take pics of this stuff, it's normal stuff that surprises you on the land but in this case because I had to make this tool and because Deye started this thread and so far no more pics of homemade necessities I thought I'd show youse guys.
Yesterday, one of our 15-month old heifers had a vaginal prolapse. This a medical emergency. Yes I know there are some neanderthals out there that don't GAF but we do. Yesterday we pushed it back in twice, with her in the crush, and she pushed it out again.
Overnight she was shut in the yards with feed and water, but pushed it out again and rubbed it into the dirt.
We were not ready to shoot her (she now can't breed, and will keep doing this - genetical defect - and it's just not on) because we are chokkas with meat and want to grow her out some more. Because now she is not a breeder, she has become an eater.

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The prolapse. It's a terrible thing to look at, and is an emergency and MUST be fixed. This one isn't as bad as I've dealt with before, but bad enough.
I won't show the pics of the inverted vagina being pushed back in after completely washing and cleaning, as well as heaps of lubricant, my wife had to do it because my hands are too big.

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The epidural to deaden any pain when stitching this closed using the tool I made. She was injected with 5ml of 2% Lignocaine into her spinal column. Something my wife has had to do in her job as an ED Doctor heaps of times, but in people. It deadens all the nerves coming off the spine that go to these specific areas, and you have to count the vertebrae and place the needle in exactly the right location.

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The finished job. I also won't show pics of doing it but will describe it.
The tool is inserted on both then right and left bottom of her vulva, pushed upwards the full length, to come out between the top of her vagina between it and her anus, swaps to the other side the same and out the bottom.
Then you tighten the paracord (or tape but that's what a vet uses and is cheap sh*t) and knot it securely. But not too tightly.
So now, she can still freely urinate, but never have a calf and if she did, she'd probably push out all the way to the cervix and although some sick farmers will do it and kill the cow to get a calf, we won't.
So this what this home-made tool is for. And it needs to be SHARP, man.

[deye243]

Maybe not, Wrenchman, if you dabble in making stuff, sometimes you have most of the stuff that can be repurposed and some spare time.
Too many people spend it on the couch bending the elbow that is giving them diabetes and staring at the TV allowing Alzheimer's to develop, I'd rather be exercising the brain and the hands in the shed ...

On most of the big names brass tumblers... quite frankly they work but have a few faults. One being crap.

Mate that's a super professional job, right down to the pillow-block bearings and shafts, pulleys etc.
Working out the speed via the pulley diameter/motor speed, did that work out how you wanted it?
And the drum itself, is the cap a screw-on with seal, I assume it is?
Is it pressure poly, and I'm really interested in where you went to get the plastic-work too.

Unreal thread topic, keen to see what becomes of it because there are some great home ideas and skill out there. Politics and economics threads are a part of life, but it's a real downer after awhile and seems all there is. I bet there are some excellent ideas out there to share.

Yes all except one thing the drum slips on the sharft's .
It is pressure pipe as i think the normal pvc pipe would crack of wear out and the lid is just the rubber cap and hose clamp .
Now for the slippage problem all I can think of is a ring gear type arrangement as when full ready to spin it weights somewhere in the vicinity of 10 to 15 kilos at the moment I have it sleeved with car inner tube rubber but that doesn't last long because of the weight.
So if anybody on the form has an idea to give it grip I am all ears I even thought of knurling the shafts but I figure that would create too much wear and tear on the drum.

Cheers